3SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODELS
You don’t write great code by following a fixed set of rules for every project. For some projects, hacking out a few hundred lines of code might be all you need to produce a great program. Other projects, however, could involve millions of code lines, hundreds of project engineers, and several layers of management or other support personnel; in these cases, the software development process you use will greatly affect the project’s success.
In this chapter, we’ll look at various development models and when to use them.
3.1 The Software Development Life Cycle
During its life, a piece of software generally goes through ...
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